Three ADHD-friendly ways to bring more art into your everyday life
Finding beauty and meaning doesn't necessarily have to be expensive or inconvenient
Seeking a reprieve from the relentless, depressing news cycle (which I should stop watching anyway), I’ve begun making a conscious effort to incorporate more art into my week. The early results of my experiment look promising. ✨
Try these low-effort, high-satisfaction suggestions, and let me know your experiences.
Try The New York Times 10-Minute Focus Challenge
During a fascist coup, it’s a radical act of attention reclamation to devote a full ten minutes to observing a piece of art. Catherine Murphy’s painting “Canopy” had my ADHD brain utterly captivated for the entire length of the challenge. (I greatly enjoyed Lee Krasner’s vibrant abstract art piece from today’s challenge, too.)
Subscribe to the Colossal newsletter
The Colossal newsletter arrives daily, but I usually take my time and savor reading the entirety of one or two editions most weeks. Recently, I watched Patrick Smith’s satirical short about prescription pills1 and became obsessed with David Opdyke’s provocative series of vintage postcard paintings.
Take a Virtual Field Trip with Creative Mornings
Register for one of Creative Mornings’ fabulous, free webinar workshops, set your Teams status to “Appear Offline”, and draw, write, or reflect for a full hour of self-care time.
I’ve been thinking about the role of prescription drugs in American culture a lot lately. (Not in a MAHA way. I wouldn’t be able to function without Cymbalta.) Tampa’s own Doechii got me started down this rabbit hole. Her song DENIAL IS A RIVER features a conversation between Doechii and another person—or herself—about whether to feel guilty because “I mean, fuck, I like pills, I like drugs.”